May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Lampwick]

Hardly any buds visible on Haberlea up here,  John - and as for that FAT  Asperula - it's a monster!  Fabulous!

Thank you Maggi.
In 1990 my wife and I were guests at a wedding held in Comlongon Castle.
On our way home, just over the border, I stopped to fill up with petrol and propped up outside was this buff coloured glazed sink for sale. I cant remember now what I paid for it, but my wife was not well pleased carting “That thing” (as she called it) all the way home in the Ford Escort. (It is 32 inches long, 15 inches wide and 9 inches deep)
I remember driving home and planning what I would plant in it! It was less than a month and it was planted up as shown below! The only original plants are:- Asperula suberosa, Saxifraga edithae ‘Bridget’ and S. x burnatti.
Blimey! . . I didn't realise it was 26 years ago! 
The Haberlea is about the same age. The Polygala is a cutting I took just over a year ago.

[Robert]

Trond,

I very much enjoyed seeing all of the spring wildflowers.

We grow Primula veris in our garden here. I would like to have a large drift as pictured in your photograph, maybe wishful thinking with our climatic conditions.

Seeing the Anemone nemorosa on the stump was quite the sight. Great! 

Viola tricolor ssp. curtisii perennial? It would be very interesting to see if it stayed perennial with our long summers of hot, dry, weather.

Thank you for sharing. I certainly enjoyed! 

[Hoy]

Viola tricolor ssp. curtisii perennial? It would be very interesting to see if it stayed perennial with our long summers of hot, dry, weather.

Robert, I will look for seed later

[Hoy]

A few more today.

Wood sorrel is one of the few flowering plants in the woods here - except or grasses and the like.




It is mostly lichen and moss on the barren knolls but some plants seem to do well. These sites dry completely up in the summer.
Spergula morisonii






You can find larger plants like this Polygonatum odoratum in larger crevices with more soil.




Also this Polygala amarella(?) enjoy more soil.

[Hoy]

A few pictures of the wood:

Aspens are common in between the pines. This one is heavy attacked by the black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)




Ants hive




Pines




Oak





Evening

[Lampwick]

Today....

Rhododendron 'Princess Anne'

[meanie]

Iris confusa.............

[Maggi Young]

Thank you Maggi.
In 1990 my wife and I were guests at a wedding held in Comlongon Castle.
On our way home, just over the border, I stopped to fill up with petrol and propped up outside was this buff coloured glazed sink for sale. I cant remember now what I paid for it, but my wife was not well pleased carting “That thing” (as she called it) all the way home in the Ford Escort. (It is 32 inches long, 15 inches wide and 9 inches deep)
I remember driving home and planning what I would plant in it! It was less than a month and it was planted up as shown below! The only original plants are:- Asperula suberosa, Saxifraga edithae ‘Bridget’ and S. x burnatti.
Blimey! . . I didn't realise it was 26 years ago! 
The Haberlea is about the same age. The Polygala is a cutting I took just over a year ago.

John!  You rotter!   I do not appreciate you reminding me just how long ago 1990 was.   In my head it is but yesterday - now  you've got me feeling old again 

[Philip Walker]

Pulsatilla albana lutea
Phlox bifida 'Alba'

[Lampwick]

John!  You rotter!   I do not appreciate you reminding me just how long ago 1990 was.   In my head it is but yesterday - now  you've got me feeling old again 

I feel just the same Maggi  "I've got to the age when I need my false teeth and my hearing aid before I can ask where I've left my glasses." ~ Stuart Turner, from The Public Speaker's Bible.

[Robert]

Trond,

Your photographs are beautiful. Our comment (Jasmin and I) was that it looks "just like home". Actually more like the high Sierra Nevada near Lyon's Creek. I guess we can call this home as the first time I went to Lyon's Creek was way back in 1960. I have been a regular visitor frequently to this day.

Robert, I will look for seed later

Some of the seeds from last season are doing very well.    More on this later.

[Maggi Young]

Philip, your Phlox bifida 'Alba' is lovely - whiter than white, eh?

[David Nicholson]

Phlox bifida 'Alba'

I have one too Philip it's a lovely plant. Mine is beginning to out-grow the space I can give it so I was envisaging giving it a haircut after flowering is finished. Do you trim yours please?

[Gabriela]

Wildflowers and garden grown species all very beautiful! I also have to concentrate on the wildflowers right now, since everything evolves with the speed of light here. Not quite summer like Trond experiences  but we are getting there.

Erythronium americanum in full flower or almost over, depending on the light exposure.


Anemone quinquefolia, the NA equivalent of A. nemorosa but with a more demure appearance.



Trillium grandiflorum fo. roseum the pinkish forms have to be looked for in early bud stage.

[Gabriela]

More wildflowers: Coptis trifolia, an evergreen, small plant for cool, damp situations. The new foliage will emerge after flowering. On the mossy hump is growing together a good companion - Medeola virginiana (the hairy stems).



The well known Uvularia grandiflora.


Polygonatum pubescens just about to flower; delicate and forms smaller colonies than other solomon's seals.


The tiniest Viola for wet places - Viola macloskeyi.